It’s an interesting scene: A roomful of national and local reporters (and one from Norway) gathered to hear the absent Michele Bachmann not announce her presidential campaign plans.

Bachmann postponed a trip to Iowa, where until yesterday she was widely expected to make her presidential campaign plans public.

Instead, via conference call, she promised tonight to make her presidential campaign announcement at her Iowa birthplace — Waterloo — at a date and time to be announced. It will be in June, she said.

People don’t come to Iowa to announce they’re not running. If she actually schedules a speech, that’ll be pretty big tip-off that she’s jumping in.

She touted her fund-raising, including a 30-hour effort that her staff said raised over $260,000.

“I am very confident if we get in this race, we will be able to put the resources together to be able to wage a full-scale, successful effort to be able to make it all the way to the White House,” “she said.

Bachmann is scheduled to speak to a Polk County GOP dinner tonight via video conference. I’m here and will live-tweet.

Bachmann’s staff said she will be in Iowa in time to make her noon event in Davenport on Friday.